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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Oct 14, 1998
Requires each officer and employee of an executive agency who travels abroad to attend an international conference to submit to the Director of the Office of International Conferences of the Department of State a report on such travel. Excludes the President, the Vice President, and any employee who is carrying out an intelligence activity, performing a protective function, or engaged in a sensitive diplomatic mission. Requires the Director to submit biannual reports on such travel to the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations and the House Committees on International Relations and Appropriations Directs the President to submit to such committees annual reports setting forth: (1) the total Government expenditures on all official travel abroad by each executive agency during the preceding fiscal year; and (2) the total number of agency officers and employees who engaged in such travel.
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Sen. Ashcroft, John [R-MO] · R–MO
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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